Infrant Technologies today announced a Network Attached Storage (NAS) product for the SMB market. The ReadyNAS 1100 is packaged in a compact 12" deep 1U chassis, enabling back-to-back mounting in a four-post data rack. Typical power consumption is 75 watts with four hard drives.

Other hardware features include dual gigabit Ethernet ports, full-hardware RAID (0, 1, 5, X-RAID), support for up to four hot-swappable SATA hard drives and sequenced hard drive power on to protect against "start-up surging."

The 1100 is built around an "enterprise-hardened" embedded Linux operating system and Infrant's custom network storage processor and requires no additional software installation or per-user licensing agreements. The 1100 has three security modes (share, user and domain for ADS integration), built-in system monitoring with e-mail alerts and a journaling file system. Network file system support includes Microsoft Windows (SMB/CIFS), Apple Mac OSX (AFP), Linux and Unix (NFS) operating systems.

The ReadyNAS 1100 is currently available and comes in four different configurations: a core unit without hard drives ($999); 1-TB pre-loaded ($1,575); 2-TB pre-loaded ($2,495); and 3-TB pre-loaded ($3,395). (All prices are U.S. MSRP.) The product comes bundled with five user licenses of EMC Retrospect backup and recovery software and carries a 2-year extended warranty.

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